How To Craft A Winning Humorous Speech?

I spent my entire labor day to analyzing the Division Humorous Speeches, funny International Speeches and some World Champion Speeches.

I then re-look at some of the similarity and what are the differences and effectiveness in creating laughter from the audience. I also analyzed the structure of the speeches to see which are somewhat more effective despite lack of laughter presence.

Here are several techniques, I will use to craft my upcoming Area Humorous Speech Contest:

1) Opening - build suspense and must have a "Wow" factor (eg. Darren LaCroix speech titled "Ouch!" when he fall on his face and stay there)

2) Conclusion - tied in conclusion to the opening (it will be effective if we could end with body language with no words)

3) Structure of the speech - Use metaphorical structure (eg. Talk about hole in a pants while hiking the jungle - the meaning pants is what we use to cover up our self image, the hole is our weaknesses and the jungle is the environment around us). This will lead the audiences, laughter after laughter and eventually realized what are the final messages from the speaker.

4) Repeaters with a tagline. Use repeaters 3-4 times throughout the speech to make the audience remember your speech. (Eg. "It's okay, it's allright, let move on", "Ouch!!" etc)

5) A speech will be ideal to comprise laughter (indicating happiness) and sadness (evoke emotions). If we can change/switch the moods of the audiences in a short 5-7 minutes speech, the speech will be impactful.

6) Use humors. Here are couple of effective humor techniques that could be use in every speeches:
(a) acronym (eg. Honda CRV - cancer removing vehicle, NFL - no friend left)
(b) words (eg. will she accepts or will she gives me a slap (almost like a triad), that girl become my wife, that wife become my master (the word "wife"), i think too much, worry to much, ultimately, do nothing much (self depreciating), I'm using the "Ninja" style, I thot I was "Zorro" (character), yes i understood, in fact i stood like a deadwood (the word "wood"), "You're fired" (Donald Trump - character jokes)
(c) use animal (metaphorical jokes) - zebra female and male zebra become baby zebra, lion is like a car, if I upgrade my car, the lion became bigger

Once I crafted my Area Contest Humorous Speech (hopefully be this week), I will post it here the very next time.

Hope the above are helpful hints and definitely a good reminder for myself.

Regards,
Kian